I've finally had time to put in some very rigorous and multi-layered anti-spam measures at each entry point of the UberStudent website.

The task was made a bit more complicated than normal due to the phpBB bridge extension that is placed between the forums and the Drupal sides of the site. Although I all along had some measures in places at the forums, spammers were making accounts in Drupal and then posting here. No more, or nearly no more.

[Update: now four days after implementing the new measures, there has not been even one spam account. if you run a forum, email me and I'll share what I did.]

If you've ever wanted to see a SpamBot in action, have a look at this video. Be prepared to lift your jaw off the floor. That video is five years old, so things have since gotten even more sophisticated and...insidious.

Last night, I had to prune literally thousands of SpamBot accounts. Unfortunately, it is inevitable that some real accounts got deleted, possibly yours.